Pocket Penguins
# Pocket Penguins

Pocket Penguins is a series of books released by Penguin Classics in 2016. The series echoes the style of the original Penguin Books, with smaller A-format size, and tri-band design. The first 20 books were released in May 2016, and described by publishing director Simon Winder as "a mix of the famous and the unjustly overlooked". A Pocket Penguins series of 70 titles was published to celebrate Penguin's 70th birthday in 2005. It is known as the Pocket Penguins 70s and is available as a boxed set. A similar set of pocket Penguin 60s - this time only 60 books, each with 60 pages - was published to mark the company’s 60th birthday in 1995.

## The Books

The book jackets are coloured according to the book's original language: English, Russian, Spanish, German, Italian, Czech, French, Latin, Japanese, Yiddish and Chinese.

| No. | Title | Author | Language | Pages | ISBN | Release date |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | The Beast Within | Émile Zola | French | 480 | 9780241261736 | 26 May 2016 |
| 2 | O Pioneers! | Willa Cather | English | 208 | 9780241262153 | 26 May 2016 |
| 3 | The Cossacks and Hadji Murat | Leo Tolstoy | Russian | 416 | 9780241261897 | 26 May 2016 |
| 4 | The Malay Archipelago | Alfred Russel Wallace | English | 752 | 9780241261873 | 26 May 2016 |
| 5 | The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge | Rainer Maria Rilke | German | 224 | 9780241261194 | 26 May 2016 |
| 6 | Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | English | 224 | 9780241261798 | 26 May 2016 |
| 7 | Out of Africa | Karen Blixen | English | 400 | 9780241262115 | 26 May 2016 |
| 8 | Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | German | 320 | 9780241260654 | 26 May 2016 |
| 9 | My Childhood | Maxim Gorky | Russian | 272 | 9780241261958 | 26 May 2016 |
| 10 | The House of Ulloa | Emilia Pardo Bazán | Spanish | 304 | 9780241259160 | 26 May 2016 |
| 11 | A Parisian Affair | Guy de Maupassant | French | 368 | 9780241260845 | 26 May 2016 |
| 12 | The Betrothed | Alessandro Manzoni | Italian | 832 | 9780241259078 | 26 May 2016 |
| 13 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | English | 336 | 9780241261859 | 26 May 2016 |
| 14 | Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | Russian | 272 | 9780241261972 | 26 May 2016 |
| 15 | The Rainbow | D. H. Lawrence | English | 592 | 9780241260739 | 26 May 2016 |
| 16 | The Call of Cthulhu | H. P. Lovecraft | English | 512 | 9780241260777 | 26 May 2016 |
| 17 | The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad | English | 320 | 9780241259528 | 26 May 2016 |
| 18 | The Good Soldier Švejk | Jaroslav Hašek | Czech | 912 | 9780241260036 | 26 May 2016 |
| 19 | The Lost Estate | Henri Alain-Fournier | French | 256 | 9780241258910 | 26 May 2016 |
| 20 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | Russian | 528 | 9780241259320 | 26 May 2016 |
| 21 | The Gambler and A Nasty Business | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Russian | 272 | 9780241259580 | 4 August 2016 |
| 22 | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | English | 384 | 9780241259740 | 4 August 2016 |
| 23 | The Island of Doctor Moreau | H. G. Wells | English | 160 | 9780241261828 | 4 August 2016 |
| 24 | Storm of Steel | Ernst Jünger | German | 304 | 9780241261996 | 4 August 2016 |
| 25 | Don't Look Now | Daphne du Maurier | English | 320 | 9780241259726 | 4 August 2016 |
| 26 | The Twelve Caesars | Suetonius | Latin | 432 | 9780241261675 | 4 August 2016 |
| 27 | Wind, Sand and Stars | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | French | 160 | 9780241261644 | 4 August 2016 |
| 28 | Sanshirō | Natsume Sōseki | Japanese | 272 | 9780241284469 | 4 August 2016 |
| 29 | Dream Story | Arthur Schnitzler | German | 96 | 9780241284483 | 4 August 2016 |
| 30 | Good Morning, Midnight | Jean Rhys | English | 176 | 9780241261408 | 4 August 2016 |
| 31 | Put Out More Flags | Evelyn Waugh | English | 384 | 9780241261699 | 3 November 2016 |
| 32 | The Magician of Lublin | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Yiddish | 624 | 9780241260692 | 3 November 2016 |
| 33 | Eugénie Grandet | Honoré de Balzac | French | 784 | 9780241260050 | 3 November 2016 |
| 34 | The Age of Reason | Jean-Paul Sartre | French | 336 | 9780241259696 | 3 November 2016 |
| 35 | The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | English | 256 | 9780241259405 | 3 November 2016 |
| 36 | Lust, Caution | Eileen Chang | Chinese | 352 | 9780241259092 | 3 November 2016 |
| 37 | Laughter in the Dark | Vladimir Nabokov | Russian | 192 | 9780241261248 | 3 November 2016 |
| 38 | Ten Days That Shook the World | John Reed | English | 368 | 9780241261170 | 3 November 2016 |
| 39 | Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | Russian | 512 | 9780241259993 | 3 November 2016 |
| 40 | Monkey | Wu Cheng'en | Chinese | 400 | 9780241259184 | 3 November 2016 |

## Pocket Penguins series of 2005

A Pocket Penguins series of 70 titles was published to celebrate Penguin's 70th birthday in 2005. Each has 64 pages. They were designed to be collectable with each cover created as part of a project undertaken by 70 leading artists and designers. Among the authors in the Pocket Penguin series are: Eric Schlosser, Nick Hornby, Albert Camus, P.D. James, Richard Dawkins, India Knight, Marian Keyes, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Jonathan Safran Foer, Homer, Paul Theroux, Elizabeth David, Anais Nin, Antony Beevor, Gustave Flaubert, Anne Frank, James Kelman, Hari Kunzru, Simon Schama, William Trevor, George Orwell, Michael Moore, Helen Dunmore, J.K. Galbraith, Gervase Phinn, W.G. Sebald, Redmond O'Hanlon, Ali Smith, Sigmund Freud, Simon Armitage, Hunter S. Thompson, Vladimir Nabokov, Niall Ferguson, Muriel Spark, Steven Pinker, Tony Harrison, John Updike, Will Self, H.G. Wells, Noam Chomsky, Jamie Oliver, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, John Mortimer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roger McGough, Ian Kershaw, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Steven Runciman, Sue Townsend, Primo Levi, Alistair Cooke, William Boyd, Robert Graves, Melissa Bank, Truman Capote, David Lodge, Anton Chekhov, Claire Tomalin, David Cannadine, P.G. Wodehouse, Franz Kafka, Dave Eggers, Evelyn Waugh, Pat Barker, Jonathan Coe, John Steinbeck and Alain de Botton.

